Monthly Archives: November 2013

When I finished revising the Novella, The Lead Dancer Always Gets Flowers, it was a slight nuisance to learn that I had to format my manuscript before uploading it for publication. I said to myself, “OMG.” All I could think about was the headache it was creating the book cover.
The process was fairly simple and straight forward though. You will need to go to Kindle Direct Publishing’s website and download the 14 page guide: Building your book for Kindle.

The real headache was formatting my manuscript for Smashwords, which distributes to Kobo, Barnes and Nobles, Sony, Apple iBookstore and others. I was almost pulling my hair out and I came real close to smashing my laptop. It’s a complete nightmare. I really don’t’ know why they make it so complicated, but I guess they have their reasons. Just keep in mind that you will get through it and you will.
As with Kindle Direct, you will also have to download the The Smashwords Style Guide, from Smashword.com. As you can see, it’s a fair amount of pages.

Make it easy on yourself and format your story from the beginning. The only headache you want are the revisions.

Please leave a comment below. Did you format your book from the beginning?

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The man is a newly engaged famous Hollywood actor. The woman, a successful African American home-based business woman, who made herself believe that she was his soul mate. The question is, how did she get there?
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It was a LONG journey and I’m glad I can FINALLY say that I’m an Author! Words can’t express how I felt when I saw my name in print. Tears ran down my cheeks. Not many people can say that they wrote a book. LOTS of people wish they had the ability to write. To create SOMETHING. We should consider ourselves lucky.

The only thing I don’t like about writing, are the revisions. I feel like I’ve spent the last twenty years of my life revising this book. It got to the point where I was just sick to death of it.

I’ve learned a lot about the business of writing – and it IS a business, as well as learning how to organise myself better in terms of writing.

I haven’t been able to keep my blog post up to date, as I’ve been extremely busy. I’m still busy, but I’m gonna make an effort to keep it updated. As you can see, I’ve changed the design and I have plenty to tell you about.